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Without Philosophy

eric mccarty
2 min readSep 15, 2022

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Without Philosophy — Headless Now — Prose Poetry — Moca McCarty Photo

Without Philosophy:

it’s really to the point of being without philosophy, and this includes religious thought too, relying now entirely on my own way of seeing the world, the simplicity of being alive and not having the need to know anything as certain, holding my every point of view lightly, easily, and without asserting any lasting value or meaning. This isn’t to imply that I see the world as meaningless, far from it really, I see everything with a quality of information, a story, but that this is just the meaning I hold as prominent in the moment, a fresh idea to all I’m seeing, innocent of the ways I’ve viewed the world before.

without philosophy.

there’s value in philosophy, and I’ve spent a lifetime gathering the thoughts of others, we all have, and for me I’ve found myself mostly partial to Eastern schools, yogic lore, Vedic wisdom, and Buddhist methods of inquiry. Everything was useful, to a point at least, up until the very moment that it was all surrendered to an easier way of seeing the world, my own way, one that always provides me with all the information that’s ever really needed, momentary, always ready, available, now.

it’s been important for me to separate technique and methods from any school of philosophy, that my meditation practice be free of expectations, my inquiry without dogma, and that these are simply tools…

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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